The Welsh In Iowa

Author : Cherilyn A Walley
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708322413

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The Welsh in Iowa by Cherilyn A Walley Pdf

The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.

Author : Cherilyn A Walley
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783165919

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The Welsh in Iowa by Cherilyn A Walley Pdf

The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.

Author : David Edwards,Hugh G. Roberts,Thomas Hughes,Thomas E. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Blue Earth County (Minn.)
ISBN : WISC:89114818156

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History of the Welsh in Minnesota, Foreston and Lime Springs, Ia by David Edwards,Hugh G. Roberts,Thomas Hughes,Thomas E. Hughes Pdf

Author : Vivienne Sanders
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786837912

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Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America by Vivienne Sanders Pdf

In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that ‘very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history’. This book is the first systematic attempt to both recount and evaluate the considerable yet undervalued contribution made by Welsh immigrants and their immediate descendants to the development of the United States. Their lives and achievements are set within a narrative outline of American history that emphasises the Welsh influence upon the colonists’ rejection of British rule, and upon the establishment, expansion and industrialisation of the new American nation. This book covers both the famous and the unsung who worked and fought to acquire greater prosperity and freedom for themselves and for their nation.

Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Iowa
ISBN : OCLC:1274609069

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William D. Davies' Travels to the Welsh Settlements of Iowa in 1886 and 1891 by William D. Davies Pdf

Author : Alan Conway
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816657377

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The Welsh in America by Alan Conway Pdf

The Welsh in America was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Welsh formed a small but significant part of the great migration from Europe to the United States during the nineteenth century. In this volume they tell their own story in letters they wrote from America to their families and friends back home. The letters are highly readable, written, for the most part, in vivid and entertaining style which reveals the Welsh as an unusually literate people. The 197 letters are arranged chronologically and geographically, starting with letters that tell of the voyage across the Atlantic. Once in America, the immigrants described their experiences in the farming country of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and some of the other midwestern states. Later, as the frontier moved west, they wrote of their efforts to establish exclusive Welsh settlements on the Great Plains. From the industrial centers there are letters from coal miners and iron and steel workers. The fortune seekers who went to California in the gold rush or to the mines in Colorado are also represented. Still others tell of their search for salvation in the Mormon Zion of Utah. For each chapter or group of letters Mr. Conway has written an introduction giving the general background of the region or period and relating it to the Welsh settlers. Thus the events chronicled and the views expressed in the letters become significant in the history of the times. The majority of the letters were written in Welsh and they appear here in translation. Some were obtained from the files of old newspapers or denominational magazines; others came from the collections of the National Library of Wales or from individuals.

Author : Thomas E. Hughes,David Edwards,Hugh G. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:07004209

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History of the Welsh in Minnesota, Foreston and Lime Springs, Ia by Thomas E. Hughes,David Edwards,Hugh G. Roberts Pdf

Author : Thomas E. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Social Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433081793527

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Hanes Cymry Minnesota, Foreston a Lime Springs, Ia by Thomas E. Hughes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0979507642

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History of the Welsh in Minnesota Foreston and Lime Springs, Iowa by Anonim Pdf

At long last, an English translation of the Welsh language part of Hanes Cymry Minnesota (1895), Indexed and with every photo from the original volume. The Welsh language account is quite unique -- fresh stories told firsthand by scores of Old Settlers with settlement histories in tidy order.

Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807887900

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Welsh Americans by Ronald L. Lewis Pdf

In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.

Author : Phillips G. Davies
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206252

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Welsh in Wisconsin by Phillips G. Davies Pdf

Between 1840 and 1890, many Welsh looked to Wisconsin for relief where they could purchase inexpensive, productive land. With large Welsh landowners controlling most of the arable land in Wales and Corn Laws, which prohibited importation of cheap food, domestic food prices increased dramatically and left the typical tenant-farming family with fields full of grain but empty cupboards. Once in Wisconsin, the newcomers kept to themselves, maintained their native language and national traditions and worshipped together in close-knit communities. This addition to the People of Wisconsin series weaves period letters from the Owen family and Private John Jones, who served in the Union army in the Civil War, into the narration. Welsh in Wisconsin also contains anecdotes from early immigrant life and photographs depicting Welsh churches in Wisconsin.

Author : American Bible Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Bible
ISBN : UIUC:30112109777554

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Bible Society Record by American Bible Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Welsh
ISBN : NYPL:33433074924162

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The Cambrian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015019387060

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Iowa State Journal of Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Iowa. State College, Cedar Falls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UIUC:30112009433712

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Iowa State Journal of Research by Iowa. State College, Cedar Falls Pdf